Piano Virtuoso 3 for iPad
Published February 16, 2012 | 
Piano Virtuoso 3 is a virtual piano app for your iPad. It comes with dual keyboards that span a range of 88 keys. All keys on the touch screen make use of True Velocity technology, which factors in volume and velocity simultaneously to produce a realistic sound. Each key is also color coded and labeled by note to aid inexperienced piano players. Duet mode allows you and a friend to play at the same time.
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2 CommentsThumbJam for iPad
Published February 16, 2012 | 
ThumbJam is a music production app for iPad. It comes with over 30 instruments meant to span a wide range of genres. Choose from many different scales, lock in your song key and never play a bad note. Thumbjam also makes use of the iPad’s position and movement to give your performances more realism. Tilt and shake your iPad to create various expressive effects like vibrato.
Posted in iPad Beatmaker Apps, iPad Virtual Instruments | ipad, ipad music apps, music, music apps, production, Thumb Jam, ThumbJam | Leave a commentDM1 Drum Machine for iPad
Published January 29, 2012 |
DM1 is a classic drum machine for your iPad. It is comprised of a traditional step sequencer, a drum pad section, a mixer, an arranger, and X/Y FX pads. You can manually input grooves via the seqencer or record a performance using the drum pad section. Automatic quantization makes it easy to create beats on the fly. No need to record a groove, stop playback, hit quantize, then start playback up and keep working. Simply lay down a groove and keep building without ever breaking stride.
Posted in iPad Beatmaker Apps, iPad Virtual Instruments | DM1, drum machine, ipad, ipad 2, ipad music apps, music apps | Leave a commentRebirth on iPad
Published January 19, 2012 |
Propellerhead’s Rebirth has been a popular desktop production tool for many years, so I knew it was just a matter of time before it made its way to the iPad. Rebirth is a beat making app built around the popular TB-303 and TR 808 and 809 drum machines. The groove engine behind all three of these modules is a programmable step sequencer with various effects. You’ll get a Compressor, Tempo-synced Delay, Distortion, a Pattern Controlled filter, and Mixing section for polishing your creations.
VirSyn Addictive Synth for iPad
Published January 4, 2012 |
VirSyn Addictive Synth is a wavetable synthesizer with extensive sound shaping capabilities. Its six oscillator engine can be tweaked and morphed through LFO’s, envelopes, and filters to create some impressive sounds – anything from squelching leads to atmospherics.
miniSynth Pro for iPad
Published January 2, 2012 |
miniSynth Pro is a virtual analog synthesizer with some great features and cool sounds. It has FM and Subtractive synthesis as well as monophonic and polyphonic capabilities. The newest update is version 1.6 and has some great additions like virtual MIDI support, which allows you to use the app’s interface as a MIDI keyboard in conjunction with other programs. It has re-sizable keyboards, audio copy and paste, and the ability to create and save presets.
SampleTank Comes To iPad
Published December 31, 2011 |
I first bought SampleTank (the desktop version) about 3 years ago. It was a solid workstation back then, so I was excited to hear it was making its way into iOS. After getting some experience with the app, what stood out the most are the quality of the sounds and the amount of sounds it comes with. You’ll get 136 instruments with the opportunity to expand with additional purchases. These expansions are reasonably priced at $4.99 and compliment the program nicely.
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Published December 27, 2011 |
OMGuitar is a cool guitar synthesizer for your iPad. It comes with 3 electric guitars, 3 acoustic guitars, and 10 on-board effects. Some of the effects include Distortion, Compression, Reverb, Delay, Wah Wah, Vowel Filter and EQ. You also get access to hundreds of chords with a ‘quick chord’ section on the UI that allows you to load up several chords for instant access.
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Published December 18, 2011 |
Rockmate is a unique audio scratchpad that allows several people to play the app’s on board instruments at the same time. This means I can play the keys, you can hop on the drums and Freddy can play some rhythm guitar for us all at once. Try wrapping your head around an iPad rock band that only uses 1 iPad…
Posted in iPad Multitrackers, iPad Virtual Instruments | apps, ipad, ipad 2, music apps, music production, rockmate | Leave a commentNanoStudio for iPad
Published December 15, 2011 |
NanoStudio became known for its success on the iPhone as being one of the best music making apps in 2010, but the iPad makes even better use of this software because of a bigger screen. There are a lot of reasons why this feature-laden program is a special one. First and foremost, the depth of NanoStudio, makes it one of the most complete iOS production app’s available.
